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Clifford (Geometric) Algebras: With Applications to Physics, Mathematics, and Engineering

✍ Scribed by William E. Baylis (auth.), William E. Baylis (eds.)


Publisher
BirkhΓ€user Basel
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Leaves
521
Edition
1
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


This volume is an outgrowth of the 1995 Summer School on Theoretical Physics of the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP), held in Banff, Alberta, in the Canadian Rockies, from July 30 to August 12,1995. The chapters, based on lectures given at the School, are designed to be tutorial in nature, and many include exercises to assist the learning process. Most lecturers gave three or four fifty-minute lectures aimed at relative novices in the field. More emphasis is therefore placed on pedagogy and establishing comprehension than on erudition and superior scholarship. Of course, new and exciting results are presented in applications of Clifford algebras, but in a coherent and user-friendly way to the nonspecialist. The subject area of the volume is Clifford algebra and its applications. Through the geometric language of the Clifford-algebra approach, many concepts in physics are clarified, united, and extended in new and sometimes surprising directions. In particular, the approach eliminates the formal gaps that traditionally separate clasΒ­ sical, quantum, and relativistic physics. It thereby makes the study of physics more efficient and the research more penetrating, and it suggests resolutions to a major physics problem of the twentieth century, namely how to unite quantum theory and gravity. The term "geometric algebra" was used by Clifford himself, and David Hestenes has suggested its use in order to emphasize its wide applicability, and b& cause the developments by Clifford were themselves based heavily on previous work by Grassmann, Hamilton, Rodrigues, Gauss, and others.

✦ Table of Contents


Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Clifford Algebras and Spinor Operators....Pages 5-35
Introduction to Geometric Algebras....Pages 37-43
Linear Transformations....Pages 45-52
Directed Integration....Pages 53-64
Linear Algebra....Pages 65-82
Dynamics....Pages 83-94
Electromagnetism....Pages 95-110
Electron Physics I....Pages 111-127
Electron Physics II....Pages 129-145
STA and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics....Pages 147-169
Gravity I β€” Introduction....Pages 171-184
Gravity II β€” Field Equations....Pages 185-195
Gravity III β€” First Applications....Pages 197-210
Gravity IV β€” The β€˜Intrinsic’ Method....Pages 211-222
Gravity V β€” Further Applications....Pages 223-235
>The Paravector Model of Spacetime....Pages 237-252
Eigenspinors in Electrodynamics....Pages 253-268
Eigenspinors in Quantum Theory....Pages 269-284
Eigenspinors in Curved Spacetime....Pages 285-296
Spinors: Lorentz Group....Pages 297-306
Spinors: Clifford Algebra....Pages 307-316
General Relativity: An Overview....Pages 317-327
Spinors in General Relativity....Pages 329-340
Hypergravity I....Pages 341-351
Hypergravity II....Pages 353-364
Properties of Clifford Algebras for Fundamental Particles....Pages 365-388
The Extended Grassmann Algebra of R 3 ....Pages 389-421
Geometric Algebra: Applications in Engineering....Pages 423-440
Projective Quadrics, Poles, Polars, and Legendre Transformations....Pages 441-448
Spacetime Algebra and Line Geometry....Pages 449-457
Exploring Generalizations of Clifford Algebra....Pages 459-462
Clifford Algebra Computations with Maple....Pages 463-501
Back Matter....Pages 503-517

✦ Subjects


Physics, general;Algebra;Differential Geometry;Mathematical Methods in Physics


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